Senior Cloud Engineer (Wallet, Payments and Commerce)

Apple•Austin, TX

About The Position

The Wallet, Payments and Commerce (WPC) Cloud Engineering team is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to own complex, ambiguous problems and drive cross-functional solutions that scale with the organization’s growth. The role independently leads significant parts of the cloud platform, sets technical direction on project teams, and promotes quality, security, and customer focus across the organization. The team supports Apple Pay and its digital wallet experience, with cloud systems serving millions of customer interactions.

Requirements

At least 8 years of cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience.
Track record of owning production systems end-to-end.
Experience building platforms as products for internal developers and shipping paved roads.
Extensive Kubernetes and containers experience, including ownership of multi-tenant, multi-cluster, multi-region environments.
Deep Crossplane and Terraform experience, including designing composition and provider patterns at scale.
Security-first architecture experience and Policy as Code experience, such as Kyverno or OPA/Gatekeeper.
Public cloud expertise across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
GitOps and CI/CD experience with tools such as Flux, Jenkins, or Kargo.
Strong networking fundamentals, including NATs, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and mTLS.
Linux internals and systems-level troubleshooting experience.
Microservices and distributed systems experience, including designing for failure.
Experience with service meshes such as Istio, Traefik, or LinkerD.
Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Sensu.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, drive project-team technical direction, and align solutions with business objectives in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice To Haves

10 or more years of work experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Own complex cloud infrastructure and platform problems end-to-end in production.
Independently lead significant components of the cloud platform.
Set technical direction for project teams and drive cross-functional solutions.
Build platforms as products for internal developers, including usable paved roads.
Design and operate multi-tenant, multi-cluster, and multi-region Kubernetes environments.
Design Infrastructure as Code composition and provider patterns at scale.
Build security guardrails into the platform using Policy as Code.
Deliver changes through GitOps and CI/CD pipelines with declarative promotion and rollback.
Troubleshoot networking, Linux, and distributed-system issues.
Mentor engineers and align technical solutions with business objectives in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.
Raise quality, security, and customer focus across the organization.